Math snacks

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Math Snacks inspire families to find and talk about math in everyday life. These are some ideas to get started! The Development and Research in Early math education site from Stanford shares a few starters.

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Differences Between Dysgraphia & Dyscalculia

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Dyslexia is a reading disorder, Dysgraphia is a writing disorder and Dyscalculia is a challenge with numbers and math but the conditions may sometimes be confused for one another. That’s because people with dyslexia may also have problems with their writing and spelling or attention to numbers.

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Talk is good

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This research showed a strong link between a given student’s talk time and number of utterances featuring reasoning and that student’s achievement. As for student talk time, a connection at the classroom level was also identified-students in talkative classrooms had better results. However, there was not a connection between utterances with reasoning and better results at the classroom level. A positive link between individual participation and achievement was observed in all students regardless of socioeconomic background or gender.

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A picture paints a thousand words

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Amber Gardner reminds us that moving from concrete experiences to abstract symbols with manipulatives and pictorial representations creates learning, not just memorization.

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